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Source: The Mercury (Hobart) 10 May 1938, p. 2.
Lionel Shave Lionel Shave i(A14877 works by)
Born: Established: 1888 Hawthorn, Camberwell - Kew area, Melbourne - Inner South, Melbourne, Victoria, ; Died: Ceased: 11 Apr 1954 Sydney, New South Wales,
Gender: Male
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1 Twelve Moons Cold Lionel Shave , 1948 single work drama crime
— Appears in: Five Proven One-Act Plays 1948; (p. 99-117) The Campbell Howard Annotated Index of Australian Plays 1920-1955 ed. Jack Bedson and Julian Croft (1993): 337 comments: 'A double double-cross by underworld characters.' The play has 'A good plot well handled.'
1 The Resignation of Mr. Bagsworth Lionel Shave , 1948 single work drama
— Appears in: Five Proven One-Act Plays 1948; (p. 77-97) The Campbell Howard Annotated Index of Australian Plays 1920-1955 ed. Jack Bedson and Julian Croft (1993): 335 comments: 'A comedy. The theme is how much is man a creature of habit.' The play is set in a cafe.
1 Red and Gold Lionel Shave , 1948 single work drama
— Appears in: Five Proven One-Act Plays 1948; (p. 23-47) The Campbell Howard Annotated Index of Australian Plays 1920-1955 ed. Jack Bedson and Julian Croft (1993): 334-335 comments: 'The play is set in the interior of a bush shanty on the road to the diggings. 1865.' Its synopsis is as follows: 'The "new chum" becomes demented in the loneliness of the bush.' and a final comment: 'A cleverly woven plot - some very good twists and denouement.'
1 2 y separately published work icon Five Proven One-Act Plays Lionel Shave , Sydney : Australasian Publishing Co. , 1948 Z202703 1948 selected work drama
1 That's Murder : A Mystery Comedy in One Act Exit John Barcombe Lionel Shave , 1944 single work drama
— Appears in: Six Australian One-Act Plays 1944; (p. 61-84) Five Proven One-Act Plays 1948; (p. 49-76) The Campbell Howard Annotated Index of Australian Plays 1920-1955 ed. Jack Bedson and Julian Croft (1993): 336 comments:'A murder has been committed, or is it suicide? If it is murder, is it the work of the wife, the mistress or the maid?'
1 That's Murder Lionel Shave , 1944 single work drama
— Appears in: Six Australian One-Act Plays 1944; Set in the suburbs of an unspecified city, apparently Sydney, with two CID men called in to investigate. (John Loder Australian Crime Fiction : a bibliography (1994): 214).
1 form y separately published work icon A Sirius Cove Lionel Shave , Melbourne : 1938 9927841 1938 single work radio play historical fiction humour

'In A Sirius Cove, Lionel Shave satirises In a frolicsome way contemporary Bellevue Hill society. The comedy also pokes fun at those who attempt to deny the early Australian convict background' (Leslie Rees. 'We Shall Have Drama', p. 6).

The play is a. comedy of social life in the setting of a Bellevue Hill (Sydney) mansion, and involves a contest between a mother's ambitions and a daughter's desires. In the end a first fleet ancestor plays a useful part in the daughter's behalf ('Three Dramatic Sessions.' Daily Examiner, Grafton, 7 May 1938, p. 8).
1 A Sirius Cove Lionel Shave , 1935 single work drama
— Appears in: Five Proven One-Act Plays 1948; (p. 1-21) The Campbell Howard Annotated Index of Australian Plays 1920-1955 ed. Jack Bedson and Julian Croft (1993):335-336 comments 'A mystery comedy. An incredible impersonation by the true lover shocks the moneyed 'desirable' eligible into breaking off with the heroine and all live happily ever after.' The play is set in 'A lounge-vestibule in Mrs. Pilcarrow-browne's bellevue Hill home. The present.'
1 The White Bud Lionel Shave , 1935 single work short story
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 5 June vol. 56 no. 2886 1935; (p. 50)
1 y separately published work icon Pattern for a Fresco : A Comedy in Two Acts Lionel Shave , Sydney : Lionel Shave , 1920 Z226753 1920 single work drama humour
1 The Poet, the Muse and the Missus i "My love is like a dew-kissed rose,", Lionel Shave , 1919 single work poetry humour
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 6 February vol. 40 no. 2034 1919; (p. 2)
1 The Lost Magic i "A conjurer beyond compare", Lionel Shave , 1919 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 20 February vol. 40 no. 2036 1919; (p. 30)
1 "One for Sorrer" Lionel Shave , 1916 single work short story humour
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 20 July vol. 37 no. 1901 1916; (p. 22)
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